Trainer Todd Austin made it back-to-back wins in the Birdsville Cup when the hot favourite Echo Point trounced his opposition in the famed outback feature race by a whopping 4.25 length margin. The event did not take place in 2020 because of Covid-19. Austin won the Cup with French Hussler… Read More »
In a recent interview, jockey Michael Cahill, who is close to returning to riding following a lengthy, four-month recovery period from a fractured C4 injury, mentioned that there seemingly has been a spate in jockey’s back and neck injuries in recent times. He referred to what he thought was as… Read More »
What on earth is going on at Racing Australia? Described as the peak National Administration body for the thoroughbred racing industry in Australia, Racing Australia is stuck in an impasse which is putting their profile in negative territory and currently doing nobody any good at all. John Messara has quit… Read More »
Stories don’t come much better than that of The Harrovian. The star performer has been retired as a seventeen time winner from thirty-seven starts but, as is so often the case, the bare statistics don’t reveal the true measure of the horse who was at death’s door back in 2018,… Read More »
John Allen’s nickname could be well be ‘Derby.’ If it was, you wouldn’t have to look far to find out where he got it from. Allen’s affinity with three-year-old horses in classic races in recent years has seen him win Derby races in no less than five states, some of… Read More »
With two-thirds of the season all but completed, the Brisbane Apprentices Jockey Premiership remains on a knife-edge in a two-cornered contest between Jaden Lloyd and Kyle Wilson-Taylor. Not only are they locked together on the Premiership ladder … Lloyd has thirty-nine winners to Wilson-Taylor’s thirty-eight-and-a-half winners … but their overall… Read More »
Trainer Robert Heathcote is not only seldom without a quality racehorse, but his good horses always seem to fit into the bargain category in terms of purchase price … which is not the easiest of scenarios to achieve. Buffering (bought for $22 000 – earned $7.3 million in prize-money), Rothfire… Read More »
The Tony and Maddy Sears trained Steady Ready sizzled his way to a scintillating debut victory at Doomben on Saturday under the enthusiastic guidance of a rejuvenated and refreshed Luke Tarrant. The two-year-old colt had won a barrier trial at Toowoomba by no less than 13.20 lengths on March 8… Read More »
Michael Cahill, who has been out of action since being injured in a race fall at the Sunshine Coast on December 3, is hopeful of making a return to trackwork riding on April 14. Cahill went down on that day when his mount Why We Drink clipped heels, and he… Read More »
With attention turning to a celebration of the fact that it had been thirty years since the first race under lights at Toowoomba, on Friday night at the track, many were reflecting on the changing times since that ground-breaking 1992 edition of the Toowoomba Cup … on just how much… Read More »
It was the ‘no brainer’ bet of the day … one that certainly wasn’t hard to find. Miss Barty, the person, was clearly the most topical subject of the day. Her name has been everywhere. Open the race-book for the first race at Toowoomba and there it was again, staring… Read More »
It’s now thirty years ago that the Toowoomba Turf Club etched its place in Australian racing history by hosting the first race run under lights in the country … and that prestigious achievement will be one of the points of celebration at the Toowoomba meeting tonight. The first race under… Read More »
Jockey Nathan Day, who has successfully plied his trade on the Northern Queensland circuit for some time, has been handed a hefty nine-month penalty by the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) Stewards to begin with immediate effect. The relevant, official steward’s report, which was issued on Monday, March 21, reads:… Read More »
Trainer Danny Williams and his now much celebrated Galaxy Group 1 winner Shelby Sixtysix have already secured their place in ‘the best racing stories of the season’ folder. The Galaxy might have provided both horse and trainer with their first Group 1 win, but an old adage was also very… Read More »
A dead-heat result between the Billy Healey trained Frankie Blue Eyes and the John Manzelmann trained Lets Torque A Deel in the Class 1 Handicap at Rockhampton on February 11 has been overturned by Queensland Racing Integrity Stewards. The details of the reasons for the Steward’s decision were released earlier… Read More »
The Steven O’Dea / Matt Hoysted trained filly She’sgottheboom continues to carry all before her with her unbeaten run reaching new heights at the Gold Coast last Saturday when she powered home in brilliant fashion to win the $500,000 Aquis Jewel Two-Year-Old feature race. It was the daughter of Spirit… Read More »
It was a case where daylight finished second! Yes, it was only a trial, but it was also very much a jaw dropping performance by the Kacy Fogden trained Maotai when winning the second trial at Rosehill on Tuesday by ten-and-a-quarter lengths … claiming that extreme margin in spite of… Read More »
It has been said, many times, that somebody is going to come back ‘bigger and better’ after a break, but the difference between those who conquer that challenge and those who simply talk about it, is the hard yards that have to be followed if that goal is to be… Read More »
Just another way to lose your money … well, a very different way to lose your money. Jockey Mychel Sanchez got it all wrong and he is paying the price for some serious errors of judgment. Unlike many racing jurisdictions, in Pennsylvania, where Sanchez is based, jockeys are legally allowed… Read More »
Last Saturday at Eagle Farm, the three-year-old filly Gypsy Goddess made it five wins from five starts and she will now head to Sydney in search of Group 1 glory. Trainer Vandyke offered these views on his rising star. “I’m delighted with the way Gypsy Goddess came through her race… Read More »
